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title: The single-term limit for the country's presidency prevented Preside… — Colombia · tree and pragmatics
description: The single-term limit for the country's presidency prevented President Iván Duque from seeking re-election. Who acts: term limit. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombia, sentence 164

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From Wikipedia, [«Colombia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The single-term limit for the country's presidency prevented President Iván Duque from seeking re-election.

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**Who acts:** term limit · **What happens:** prevent, seek · **To what, where:** Iván, re-election

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Colombia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (term limit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Colombia:164
# text = The single-term limit for the country's presidency prevented President Iván Duque from seeking re-election.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	presidency	presidency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	Duque	Duque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	re-election	re-election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | past | the term limit for the country's presidency | Iván  President |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer iván=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | the term limit for the country's presidency *not said here* | re-election |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent re-election=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Colombia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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